I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.

I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well - received but...

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Action speaks louder than words, but if someone judged you by your tattoos, that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of art for art's sake.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

"I'm transgender" she repeated. "It means I was born with certain male characteristics. One of which I still have."

ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?...

We wear many things, but that with greatest import is our expression.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat - out brazen when it comes to the desires of your heart.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my...

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

... she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see ...

Penelope {the parrot} squawked, 'I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!' Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that had made up that brilliant remark. She...

Try saying this: "I enjoy my creativity." And when you say it, be sure to actually mean it. For one thing, it will freak people out. I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only...

This is what they have in place of freedom-time and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite...

When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

I will not calm down!

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to...