AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Life is the game that must be played

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

I aint sleepin when I say I'm in my dream car