Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.