“It's not who you slept with that matters, but whom you fell in love with.”

“Did you make plans.""Nah. I tried once or twice, but they always went to hell. Eventually I just learned to let life take me where it wanted; it was easier that way. If you leave yourself open to possibilities, a lot might happen that you couldn't have planned for.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

“That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.”

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. ”