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“In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.”
“You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.”
“Had he already inspired a passion in some strangers heart?”
“Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?”
“They all said the way to a mans heart was through his asshole.”
“The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.”
“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is u...”
“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”
“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all ...”
“Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.”
“He was taking Kevins cherry! The words made him harder and made him feel privileged, masterful, married. He thought how many men would pay unlimited amounts to have this inaugurating experience wit...”
“Sex now seemed a strange thing to me, a social rite that registered, even brought about shifts in the balance of power, but something that was more discussed than performed, a simple emission of fl...”
“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn in...”
“He thought to himself, Ill never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.”
“If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making lovethe real wri...”
“Wasnt it correct in America to call a man handsome rather than beautiful?”
“Gay life is this object out there thats waiting to be written about. A lot of people think weve exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but weve just barely touched on them.”
“You say that you dont care about age and that youre ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?”
“Guys whole body was humming. Normally he thought only of his head his eyes, his smile and was aware of his body as merely the principle of forward propulsion trundling him along. But now he was a...”
“He was a good boy and projected goodness which later would be the downfall of many a person.”
“He looked out over the shirtless, muscled, tanned men and realised that right here, on this disco floor, there was such a concentration of fashion, slimming, money, bleaching, plastic surgery, psyc...”
“In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a friend Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.”
