The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.