"The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech."

“I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press

“I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.”

“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”

“Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.”

Source : ChicagoPride.com Interview, chicago.gopride.com. February 20, 2006.

“There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.”

“Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?”