My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.