“I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.” PeopleIfsWellsMotherExpectationsHardest Author:Hilton Als
“I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.” IfsThinkingFeelsCrazySubjectsJournalistic Author:Hilton Als
“Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardSocialSadnessTwentiesAidsInstanceFortySocial Life Author:Hilton Als
