if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

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.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.