Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.