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 hav...
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
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.
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.
It’s time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn’t count for shit!
The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved...
It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I be...
It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.
We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single th...
Men and women, both straight and gay, who don’t consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren’t radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little ol...
Uh … you know, strict. With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh? Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I’m stoned. Then I’m a steako-lacto-ovo … or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo…
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
If you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think?
I don't see myself very clearly.Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.
I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person.
Who’s Sally Bowles? asked Ben. I turned and looked at my younger, less theatrical half. She used to be married to Ansel Adams. You’re kidding? Yes, I am, I said. Jake
His name is Jed, he said. He’s in pre-law at Rice University. That’s all I know, except that he’s probably straight. The landlady gave him a sly smile. That’s what he told you? He’s probably straight?...
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
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