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

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.

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

All who love are conspirators.

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

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort, ' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?

Adversity purifies the spirit and refines the soul.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.