He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?

He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.

You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.

Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?

You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They’ve already lived their lives.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Great obstacles are no match for a great God.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Another day, a different dream perhaps

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.