I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

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?...

Smile out loud! Make them wonder.

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

I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know I'm up to something but never know exactly what.

So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it...

The Paco's Loco Tacos sign on my right lures me in. Not for the first time, I wonder if the tacos are crazy, if Paco is crazy, or if we are crazy for buying them. Well, I personally think a touch of...

I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

Write for a cause, NOT PRAISE. Write to express, NOT TO IMPRESS. Writing isn't just about being noticed… IT'S BEING REMEMBERED.

Only write a story that only you can write.

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.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn't. If words don't want to come out, they don't. I don't understand when people say things and then...

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.

Be like Grace: Wear large, dark glasses and a filmy scarf over your hair next time you go out in public. People will totally wonder who the mysterious beauty is, standing in line behind them at...

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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

I look like a gay Mormon missionary, he lamented in the mirror. Pardon me, have you heard the word of the Lord? It's fabulous!

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

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...

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it