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.

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.

I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world