You know how sometimes it just works? You throw all your words at the page and somehow they stick right? You boil down what every single cell in your body was feeling into one paragraph, and read over it and think — God Damn. It feels so right; it makes so much sense. And there’s a twinge of that, “why haven’t I thought of this before?” but it’s mostly, “I finally got it.” I’m there right now.

And God Damn.

“Brick.”
I forgot how hard this movie kills.

“Brick.”

I forgot how hard this movie kills.

Let’s stop being afraid of love.

When I was a boy, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
— Hesiod, circa 800 BC. Proof the “good ol’ days” never existed.
You’re going to meet the most extraordinary men, the sexiest, brightest, funniest men, and you’re going to fall in love with so many of them, and you won’t know until the end of your life who your greatest friends were or your greatest love was.
— Harvey Milk, “Milk.”