Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Hope will never be silent.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Hope is never silent.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.