You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

You talk to some people who are opposed to same sex marriage, and they'll say, 'If we allow that, what's next? Will people want to marry animals?'...You have to wonder about people who go straight to that idea --- and they think WE'RE weird!

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.