I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

I want a regular pay cheque.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate.