There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.