Цитаты из книги The Charioteer

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.

here is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.