My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

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

Teaching is performance art.

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

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

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.