I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.