When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.