“John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall betweenone's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

“The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.”

“It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.”

“Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.”

“Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.”