This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
You can always be quoted.
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.
How boring just to be a body.
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.