Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.