Michael Nava

"We all love according to our natures."

"Now I understand that it isn't up to her to be who I might want her to be. It's up to me to love her for who she is."

"The principle of all existence is cause and effect. Scientific knowledge illuminates causes so that men are not condemned to go on living ignorantly in effects."

"I walked over to the railing and watched the traffic stream up and down the boulevard. A blond in a Jeep cruised by slowly, his cassette player blaring a disco tune from the seventies. Ah, the hunt, I…"

"He had the open, cheerful, rather self-satisfied countenance of someone upon whom life had made very few demands."

"I know that a man's honour means nothing to your generation, but it is all that a man possesses in this life."

"Life is a kind of exile and we all long to go home. Who said that?"

"This struggle is not about sex. It is about privacy, individuality, and civil equality and the right of all Americans, not just gay and lesbian Americans, to be free."