What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

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.

If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.

There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.

If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.

Every man seeks the life he thinks he deserves.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.