Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

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.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

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

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.

The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.

He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.