A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.