Our spirits are full of possibilities, yet we tie ourselves down to socially-prescribed names and categories so we’re acceptable to more people. We take on identities that no one has to think about, and that’s probably how we become and why we remain men and women.

As an exercise, can you recall the last time you saw someone whose gender was ambiguous? Was this person attractive to you? And if you knew they called themselves neither a man nor a woman, what would it make you if you’re attracted to that person? And if you were to kiss? Make love? What would you be?

When you’re a Scientologist it’s like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.

It’s healthier for your soul to live outside and above a degraded moral code than within and beneath one.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

Male privilege is, in a word, violence.

The differences in the way men and women are treated are real. And the fact is this difference in treatment has no basis in the differences between men and women. I was the same person, and I was treated entirely differently. I got real interested in feminist theory – real fast.

It doesn’t really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options.

If we buy into categories of sexual orientation based solely on gender – heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual – we’re cheating ourselves of a searching examination of our real sexual preferences.

One answer to the question “Who is a transsexual?” might well be “Anyone who admits it.” A more political answer might, “Anyone whose performance of gender calls into question the construct of gender itself.