Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Devotion is diligence without assurance