Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Right is lovely.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.