I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness