In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them