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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it!

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.