We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

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.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.