The time comes for everyone to do deliberately what he used to do by mistake... If you are effeminate by nature, you have to find some way of telling the world that you know you are, otherwise they keep telling you.

Teaching is for teachers, not students... and if you'd known that when you were at school, all of your suffering would have been at least explicable.

When asked, 'Should I tell my mother I'm gay?' I answer, 'Never tell your mother anything.'

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Je veux qu'on me voit en ma facon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans etude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-meme la matiere de mon livr…

The observer is the observed.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.