We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

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.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.