The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

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

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.