All who love are conspirators.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.