Quotes by : Paul Monette

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying....

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

And thus I wonder about so many gay men I’ve met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else....

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when....

It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual....

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon....

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices....