I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

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

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

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.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.