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

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.

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.

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

Be careful the mistake of yesterday always lives with tomorrow.

We need to be strong on the inside and have God’s character and qualities

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

It doesnt matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what God wants to do.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?