You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.