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

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

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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

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.

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.