There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.