To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it