That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.