I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.