You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.