Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

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.

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.

I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

What feeds me destroys me.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

All about a dollar like four quarters.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.