What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Words are dangerous things.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?