Occupation: Writer Birth: January 2, 1951
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness.….
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?.
If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us….
If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest..
As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compile….
Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those….
And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we ….
Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We continue to exa….
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually they dare to ….
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid..
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to for….
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance..
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are….
There is always going to be a risk in a new love, a difficulty to be overcome, and more so considering all the challenges facing gay love, particular….
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are..
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re ju….
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and ….