Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.
Writing is hustling of another kind.
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.
Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.
Rhythm is the pulse of music.
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.
O for a horse with wings!