Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.

The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.