We all die unhealed
If you really believe it – go for it.
If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.
There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.
If you’re successful, people will talk about you. There’s nothing you can do about it. People make up stories.
[To his ex-entertainment lawyer Eric Eisner who resigned from the presidency of The David Geffen Company in 1991 just as a deal was about to be made with some Japanese] Keep your stock. [Eric sold it.]
HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.
The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
God is a loving god.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
