“If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

“You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”

“if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

“Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is. What's wrong is hating yourself because of it. You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”