Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

The personality is a work of art.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

For someone to believe in you, is always the best feeling in the world

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple