I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.

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.

Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.