“And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.”

“Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself. I have done it before and am doing it again. It makes life interesting.”

“In something like an instant the man had changed his life. He reinvented his relationship to the world around him in a way that is considered normal only in California.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

“But he fails to realize that, by declining the opportunity to define himself, he allows others, less interested, more callous, meaner others, to create definitions for him.”

“[It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis.”