There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.