When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.