When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.