When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“I am not so much fun Anymore; Couldn’t carry the role of ingenue In a bucket, you say, laughing. And I want to punch… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
