“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

“It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.”

“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”

“Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.”

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs t...”

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

“We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors.”

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”