“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”

“Apropos of nothing, I asked [Truman] Capote, “Are you for integration?” He said, “Yes, are you for integration?” I said, “I’m for disintegration… personal disintegration.””

“It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”

“But not like this: not with
the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad… recycled.”

“One person of integrity can make a difference.”

“I actually got a Ugandan Minister to say, on camera— he's the Minister of Ethics and Integrity, it's the only such ministry in the world— and I said to him, "Look, even if these three utterly false supports on which you base your homophobia are true, which they aren't, there's so much more to worry about in your country than the odd gay person going to bed with the other gay person. For example, you have almost an epidemic of child rape in this country, which is just frightening."
And he said, "Ah, but it is the right kind of child rape."
I said, "That was on camera. Do you know that was on camera?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Can you just explain what you meant?"
"Well, it is men raping girls. Which is natural."”

“I was just talking with friends and they said it was good idea and I just sort of liked the idea.”

“Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!

As if there were no
such thing as integrity!”

“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”