Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man. Edmund White Read Quote
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island. Edmund White Read Quote
If you’re a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you’ve waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass. Edmund White Read Quote
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who’d worked as a cowboy when he was young. He’d participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads. Edmund White Read Quote
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they’re basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag – it’s sort of the ‘Gone With the Wind’ approach. Edmund White Read Quote
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I’m good, though I think it’s quite gruelling as a profession. Edmund White Read Quote
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. Edmund White Read Quote
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it’s pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I’m gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself. Edmund White Read Quote
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother’s true disciple. She’d taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one’s whole life once he was caught. Edmund White Read Quote
