Quotes About Identity

To quote the usually reasonable and level-headed New York Times, I was "a monster." Somewhere, Kafka was smiling.

So what character in fiction do you most identify with?" she pressed him. Finally, he said, "Gregor Samsa." "My god, you kill me." She laughed.

Not believing in a hereafter, I really can't see any practical difference if people remember me as a film director or a pedophile or at all. All that I ask is my ashes be scattered close to a pharmacy.

They asked me my goal in life. I said, to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race and see if it could be mass-produced in plastic.

Wurm, who had been madly in love with Nurse Waxtrap, winds up with her identical twin so considers it a wash.

If Woody Allen can lose those Mort Sahl mannerisms, he could be a very funny comedian." I wanted to do what he did, I wanted to be like him, I wanted to be him. And that's the problem. You have to be him to get that effect. It wasn't the brilliant jokes, which

were the best I ever heard, it was the man. It took me a long time to understand that and to grasp that no matter how hard I tried or how clever I could make my act, I wasn't him. (It's the same problem 99 percent of the actors had after Brando hit the scene. They walked like him, paused like him, posed like him, postured

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

Being who you are is a pure religious experience. If you can stay with that experience, just being a part of All-That-Is, that's enough. Instead, we go searching chasing after masters because most of us want more than just being ourselves.

Whenever you meet someone or walk into a room or consider taking on a new project, it is Who-You-Think-You-Are who walks into the room, who introduces himself, and who considers the new project. Who-You-Think-You-Are determines how you stand, whether you hold yourself proudly erect or whether you slouch.

One of the most powerful effects in your life is brought by Who-You-Think-You-Are. The moment your brain became functional, you began to build an image of who and what you believe yourself to be. All the events of your life have helped to create that image, the self-image of Who-You-Think-You-Are.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres, rezaba uno de sus poemas expropiados, pero aun así Pig se conformaba con cambiarlos. Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en solo suyas.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres.

que esto de ser copy es lo más parecido a ser vedette: no eres así que digas bailarina, pero bailas; tampoco eres cantante, pero cantas; menos aún actriz, y sin embargo actúas.

Una no aprende a ser puta en los bares, ni en las fiestas, ni en la calle. La putería se aprende en soledad.

Si fuera campeón [...] ni inventaría historias porque entonces la historia sería yo.

Sin el amor, soy otra vez aquel inadaptado al que le da lo mismo que le llamen rufián, desvergonzado, vándalo, vago, bueno para nada.

Y yo que tengo moto no me imagino una mejor combinación que la de una chamarra de piel negra con una calavera cosida detrás. Todavía no la tengo, pero no hay día en que no piense en ella. ¿Yo galancito? Nunca. No esta en mi sangre. Aún así me sigo preguntando si habrá una vecina que se interese en ser la novia de un proyecto de rufián.

me quede pensando en lo lindo que habría sido todo si yo no fuera yo, ni a ti te diera tanto por ser como tú.

Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en sólo suyas.

Often it sickened me to hear people speak their native tongues fluently. It was as if they were unable to think and feel anything but what their language so readily served up to them.

Your eyes aren't empty mirrors - You reflect human beings. I hope this doesn't make you mortally unhappy.

Some humans claim to be made in God's image - what an insult to God. There are, however, in the northern reaches of our Earth, small tribes who can still remember that God looked like a bear.