They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.