To withhold from living is to die. . . the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid. . . One wants. . . But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.