Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.

Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.

And sometimes the show can't go on.

I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.