By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

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.

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

I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.