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My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet or 'Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.'

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.