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We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.