I Didn't Want To Be A Boy,

If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

Writing Is Far Too Hard Work To Say What Someone Else Wants Me To. Serving It As A Craft, Using It As A Way Of Growing In My Own Understanding, Seems To Me To Be A Beautiful Way To Live. And If That Product Is Shareable With Other People, So Much The Better.

The Terrifying Message Of Gay Liberation Is That Men Are Capable Of Loving Their Brothers. It Should Be Sweet News To Every Womanin The World, For, If The Capacity Of Men To Love Whom They Have Been Taught To Treat As Competitors And Enemies Can Transcend Their Education, The World Can Begin To Heal.

I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas As I Was To Ready-made Clothes, Perhaps Because Although I Couldn't Sew, I Could Think.

Casino Owners Spoke More Loudly Than Any Of The Other Kings Of Industry To Defend Their Contribution To Society. They Could Speak More Loudly Because Theirs Was The Purest Activity Of Civilized Man. They Had Transcended The Need For A Product. They Could Maintain And Advance Life With Machines That Made Nothing But Money.