In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

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.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.