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.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

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

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

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