Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.

They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.

The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

The best artists are gone now.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.