I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.

I think it's cool to be a rock star I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

Death is the room that is always empty.