The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

When we are unable to shine that natural light within, it burns us from our very core.

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.