My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

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

All who love are conspirators.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

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

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

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.