"I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body."

“We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.”

Source : "NAACP to sue gun makers". www.cnn.com. July 12, 1999.

“There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.”

“Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.”

“Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.”

“Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.”

“The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.”

“For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.”