Shilts Quotes

#1. A star needs all the rest she can get.

Lorna Luft

#2. You're like the portrait," he says. "A vision of erotic beauty. But a portrait isn't flesh, and its beauty can't feel pleasure.

J. Kenner

#3. 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

#4. I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Cliff Martinez

#5. I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

Susan Jacoby

#6. Look, rodent." At least she could still talk.. "Either chop off my ears so I'm not subjected to your verbal projectiles or clench your back passage so you'd stop dumping toxic waste.

Auden Johnson

#7. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

George R R Martin

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

Randy Shilts

#9. The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#10. To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Richard Whately

#11. They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,

Fannie Flagg

#12. 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

#13. My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car.

Phyllis Diller

#14. I should now find myself a wife!

Varun Dhawan

#15. 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

#16. 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