The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

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.