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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.