The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.