all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

A narcissism shared by two.

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.