The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.
To have lied is to have suffered.
Seeing is not as simple as looking.