I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.