Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

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

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.

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

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.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.