Jessamyn West

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

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

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.