surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

I reserve my right to be complex.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

Those with knowledge crave to become wiser, not powerful.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

I like vintage a lot.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.