My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

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

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

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

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.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.