The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Who could trust language?

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.