Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

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

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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.

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

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