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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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