All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.