In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

One of life's great secrets: women don't look for handsome men, they look for men with beautiful women.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.