Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.