Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.