All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

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

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

Men are actually the weaker sex.