I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

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.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

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.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?