Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?