Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.