There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
We’re starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
I’m never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who’ll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
Jesus, Jesus, help me. I’m alone in this world...
I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.
I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.
I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don’t believe I’m any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don’t look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It’s just an orientation.
I don’t have the luxury of doing things privately.