Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.