If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

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.