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

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

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

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.

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.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.