I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

I believed I was invincible.

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.