Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.