I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.