Quotes About Individuality

Yo quiero ser un escritor y sexualmente soy un híbrido raro.

Uno es un grupo de contradicciones, intelectuales y emotivas. Solamente tú no eres una contradicción: siempre te quiero

I was an easy birth, and I have never regretted it. Not even for a visit would I return to the womb. I never sleep in the fetal position, but on my back or stomach, legs flung wide. I stay out of hot dark closets. I choose rooms with windows, full of moving air. I like scattered light, a moon, stars, but will settle for anything, even that greenish glow found nowhere in nature of a Santa Monica Freeway sign.

Jack was confident that this year would be different. His sister was a goalie. He was a center. They both could be great players in their own way, and he intended to prove it.

Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.

She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought of her as god-like, and are not the children of gods devils? I did not grow to like the name Lucy-I would have much preferred to be called Lucifer outright-but whenever I saw my name I always reached out to give it a strong embrace.

Mindlessly working to impress someone else will ensure your success is always dependent on that someone else.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

We just each believe what we're able

A cape?" CeeCee said. "What kind of a moron wears a cape? Oh, &%$#!

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—a life into which, although it was my own, I had no power to penetrate—this idea gave me no rest.

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.

She is a karateka ," La Osa replied. "Nayeli could karate-kick you to death where you sit." "That's hardly feminine." He sniffed. "Perhaps," Nayeli suggested, "it is time for a new kind of femininity.