Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

- Paul Monette

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

- Paul Monette

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

- Paul Monette

We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you s…

- Paul Monette

The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to…

- Paul Monette

Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the…

- Paul Monette

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

- Paul Monette

But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock i…

- Paul Monette

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

- Paul Monette