Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

The only people are those who don't love anybody.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.