We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

To me, self-description is a calamity.

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.