No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.

If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.