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.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

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

I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'