“ Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose. Johnny Rich
“ The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects Johnny Rich
“ The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice. Johnny Rich
“ I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe… Johnny Rich
“ Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. Johnny Rich
“ In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. Johnny Rich
“ Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness Johnny Rich
“ Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books. Johnny Rich
“ An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make… Johnny Rich
“ Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script. Johnny Rich
“ Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering Johnny Rich
“ It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them. Johnny Rich