Steven Hoffman

“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer