"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”

“I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.”

Source : "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

“If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.”

“One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and t-shirts at your shows, but the music doesn't give that." I was like, "You're right, I need to be the person that I am at school, making dance and choreography. I should think about the whole performance." That's when I put the 1 in my name and started dressing for the occasion.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Do not desire a long life or an early death”

“In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.”

Source : William Romaine (1830). “Select Letters of the Rev. W. Romaine”, p.275

“Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.229, Duke University Press

“The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.”

Source : Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.10, Profile Books