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Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

It's happened before. It's all happened before. History is worth shit.

All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn't take drugs, and isn't on unemployment.

How needy man is.

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

Humiliation is so essential to Catholics. And to faggots!

The only safe place left is the dark.

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

I gave you books. You gave me plants. Books live. Plants die.

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Was it not better to wear it, do it, live it, than suppress it? That only leads, on an international scale of course, to war.

Don't lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

No religion wants us. We're going to have to invent our own.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

The guys in New York don't know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.

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.

Have you listened to your heart?

Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?

We have created our own aesthetic!"
"You mean our own Ghetto.

How to phrase it? Ma, I want to fall in love with a fella.

You're the cure? I hope you come in a portable version, like a laptop. Can you find me a boyfriend while you're at it?

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration.

Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men!

Cock-a-doodle-do! Any cock will do!

We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

The tyranny of the blood test.

I...I...I...want...your...other...arm!

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it? Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.

It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you?

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

When in doubt, eat donuts.

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.

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

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.

Indeed, to be fucked pleasurably is a gift.

We shouldn't have to be faithful, we should want to be faithful.

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.

For he knew there was a pit of sexuality out there and that he longed to throw himself into it.

The system will always be here. The system doesn't change.

Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark.
"A virgin," sputtered another.
"I didn't know they still made them."
"He just did.

Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Looking thirty, claiming forty, actually forty-five.

Straights don't compare themselves to us!