If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.