As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.