The truth hurts, my man, but it's a good pain.

But the truth, I realize now, is that I always hoped. Even if I knew my hope was a lie, I held on to it.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

My heart's a dance of fear.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.