I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.