The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door..

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affe….

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just h….

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate..

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have ….

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression..

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a s….

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day….

I believe only in art and failure..

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability..

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems….