“Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,”

When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

I do what I like, I like what I do.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

I’ve given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Who said nights were for sleep?

I’m doing good. I’ve had a slight nervous breakdown in the ’60s. I got through that. And I got through the ’70s. And I was in a doctor’s program during the ’80s and then I met Melinda and we’ve been together ever since. I’ve got a happy life.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Whatever it is however bad I’m so glad you’re still here.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.