"Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek."

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."

"By saying that He will even hand us over to burning for the sake of sufferings, torment and all sorts of il…"

"Do grant, O my Lord Jesus, that when my lips approach Thine to kiss Thee, I may taste the gall that was giv…"

"You know how sailors love to create mystery where there is none."

"We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all our…"

"The quality of poetry is not strained. It has not to abide our repeated questions. It tests and is not test…"