When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Things can’t mend without being broken.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

There are no great enologists. Only good grapes

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.