To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

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.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.