“People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I had broken through twice now, and my feeling about the universe was that it was porous and radical and you could turn it on, you could even fuck around with the universe.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.”
― It Chooses You
― It Chooses You
“I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.”
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“... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
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