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.

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.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

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

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.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.