"Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution."

-- Andrew Solomon

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“Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.”
“Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.”
“In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.”
“All men would be tyrants if they could.”
“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then itâ€™s my stuff.”

Source : "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”
“I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.”
“Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.”

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