I look into my own black heart.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

...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.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

I look into my own black heart.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.