Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.