We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

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.

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

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.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

There are so many things that go into a surgical study.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.