“The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.”
― Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
― Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
“Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”
― Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
― Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”
― The City and the Pillar
― The City and the Pillar
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