Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.