Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

We’re all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

And I’ve known people who came out with a sense of torture.

It wouldn’t have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

I’m really not an avowed heterosexual. I’m no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don’t wake up with it.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.