"Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams."

“It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.43, Basic Books

“She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.”

“I will never be below the title.”

“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.”

“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”

“Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.”

“Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.”

Source : "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.

“Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.”