I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Richard Rorty

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Charles Baudelaire

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We’re going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word “queer” is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen