"That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must."

-- Hillary Jordan

“In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.”
“you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

Source : A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.
“Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.”
“I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.”
“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”
“To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.”
“It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.”
“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.”

You may also like:

Barbara Kingsolver
Novelist
Heidi W. Durrow
Writer
Jamie Ford
Author
Jesmyn Ward
Novelist
Julie Otsuka
Author
Lisa Genova
Author
Margot Livesey
Writer
Naomi Benaron
Author
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Author of novels