Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.