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.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.