Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.