"All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated."

“Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.”

“I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.”

Source : "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

“Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.”

“We are each other’s angels, we meet when it is time.”

Source : "We Are Each Other’s Angels". Song by Chuck Brodsky, 1994.

“If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?”

“That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.”

“Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.”

“Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.”

Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).