AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Your gift will make a place for you in the world

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him disappear, lights fading in the distance like waking up from a dream.

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.