Smiles come best from those who weep..

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your su….

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular..

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an ….

Only one music comes out of me..

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a….

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common de….

Always destroy what is in you..

I'm addicted to directing!.

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me..

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off..

I do idiosyncratic dramedies..

The rottenness comes from within..

We had no domestic attacks under Bush..

That's life again. We can't decide what we like..

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple rela….

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerf….

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest..

Hardly anything wrong can go bad..

There are as many sorts of women as there are women..

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not..