As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

There is a thin line between self-love and self-hate. When you are at the self-hate side, make sure to cross the line and stay away from it forever.

I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.