“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a...”

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”