And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

The light that doesn't see its darkness but that of others is the darkness in the light of the light

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Something that is loved is never lost.