I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?