I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

Teaching is performance art.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.