Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction which seems much more severe.

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

The sound of the drum drives out thought for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.