If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.