The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.