“Were happier when the assholes are villains.”

“Death is almost never timely, even for the old.”

“Art is long and life is short.”

“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”

“Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.”

“Trust the tale, not the teller.”

“An obsessed reader figured that Armistead Maupin was an anagram for is a man I dreamt up.”

“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

“I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each others bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each oth...”

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self tha...”

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”

“They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw me...”