Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

Create peace within yourself so that you can spread the fragrance of peace all around the world.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

I think of it like a caterpillar--a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses, it becomes something truly beautiful.” Charli

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.

I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?