I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

The past is just something that's over.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.