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

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 have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.