I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.

I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.