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Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.
When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.
Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.