I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

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.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.