Edmund White

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.