“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”

“Nothing is more unbearable, once has it, than freedom.”

“...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.”

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”