That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.