I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

For a happy life, be kind and loving and be the source of happiness for others.

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.