[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

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

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

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.

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.

Teaching is performance art.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.