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

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood