I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

There are obstacles in my way and I am going to deal with it.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

'Tis Fate that flings the dice And as she flings Of kings makes peasants And of peasants kings.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.