Quotes About Boundaries

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

A person's body changing is simply not clearance for you to talk about it.

Basically, if I don't click with a person, I will never open up.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

I'm not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

I don't party with my colleagues after work.

You don't go from being friends and work colleagues, working in a close environment, to then not speaking.

I mean, something has to give. You can have it all at work, you can have it all at home, but you can't have it all completely combined.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.