In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.