Antreads’s Reviews > Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration > Status Update

"What does it mean if what you desire is illegal? Fear, frustration, fury, yes, but also a kind of political awakening, a fertile paranoia. "My queerness", he once wrote, "was a wedge that was slowly separating me from a sick society."

"I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder, and I'm amazed that we're not running amok in the streets and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this."