A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

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

Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.