Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.

I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

It took me a long time to realise that I need to stay true to my game.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

In my career, there have been roles I haven’t taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don’t care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That’s the quickest way to be eliminated from my life – try that with me, and you’re out.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to ‘do well in school, ’cause no one’s going to marry you!

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Your world is only as small as you make it.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constseseantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence

I usually spend my Friday nights out with my friends. Or I spend them at home writing. Most important, I spend my Friday nights doing whatever I want to do. I know that if I had a boyfriend, or, even worse, a husband, I’d spend my Friday nights compromising. I don’t think I really want to do that yet.

You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself

The spoken word unites the objectivity of the corporeal sign with the subjectivity of gesture, the articulation of the latter with the self-awareness of the former.

We might as well be true with ourselves

You know, I could run for governor and all this but I’m basically a media creation.  I’ve never really done anything.  I’ve worked for my dad.  I worked in the oil industry.  But that’s not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.

The Truth That Will Set Men Free, Is The Truth Men Don’t Want To Hear.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‘Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?’ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‘I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?

I believe in the person I want to become.

I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship.

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

You have to be there, even when you are not there

Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

We have a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.