"Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come."

“How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?”

“Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!”

“I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.”

“Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.”

“The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.”

“Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should.”

“A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.32, Vintage

“Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.