Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.