The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his. . . genius.
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
I enjoyed sex and indulged in it when I fancied the men.
I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them.
I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.