If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual. – Dr. Harry Benjamin, psychotherapist, 1988

My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems,