My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

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

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

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

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.