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.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

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

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

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.