My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height...

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against...

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against...

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving...

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving...

I believe only in art and failure.

I believe only in art and failure.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because...

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because...

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

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

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

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other...

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other...

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my...

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is...

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world...

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world...

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of...

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of...

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always...

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always...

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we...

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we...