All who love are conspirators.

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

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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

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.

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

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