Quotes by : Edmund White

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned....

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the....

They all said the way to a man’s heart was through his asshole.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just....

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West.....

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not....

Gay life is this object out there that’s waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we’ve....

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed,....