Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.