All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
With renunciation life begins.
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.