Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.