DUMBO

"Dylan’s survived, grown up. He’s a giant, like Chaplin or Picasso. Like Brando or Muhammed Ali . . . Nobody else even comes close — Jagger, Springsteen, Paul Simon."

"One detective arms himself with a sawed-off baseball bat. 'We’ll shoot the first motherfucker that comes through the door.' "

“You know, the guys there were so beautiful," says Allen Ginsberg of the Stonewall, "they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”

"I've gone around since the end of last year asking every lesbian I know if she wants to get I married and of course  it's been a confusing proposal."

"On March 1, 1993, l have the option to go to City Hall… oh, I mean we have the option, my long-suffering honey and I, to go to City Hall and register as domestic partners. Will we take it? Shall we pretend to tie some kind of knot?"