Randy Shilts Quotes

#1. You have to be lonely to be a writer

Edna O'Brien

#2. The crucial ingredient for healing any relationship problem is the willingness to no longer see value in playing the game of blame and guilt.

Jerry Jampolsky

#3. He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

J.I. Packer

#4. Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay,

Randy Shilts

#5. I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

Harold Budd

#6. I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

Lil' Kim

#7. Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.

Jean Alesi

#8. One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

Melvin Helitzer

#9. Adversity had not only ruined him, it had frightened him, and he was evidently going through his remnant of life on tiptoe, for fear of waking up the hostile fates.

Henry James

#10. Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Randy Shilts

#11. The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

Nik Wallenda

#12. Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

Guilherme Leal

#13. How very American, he thought, to look at a disease as homosexual or heterosexual, as if viruses had the intelligence to choose between different inclinations of human behavior.

Randy Shilts

#14. You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Gloria Steinem

#15. Perception is the world; the world is perception. In

Deepak Chopra

#16. I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.

Randy Shilts

#17. Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, in science, in economic development, in the kindness of nature, in history that leads of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, most clearly and far in advance, to be completely without foundation.

Elena Ferrante

#18. HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

Randy Shilts