What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

No art is possible without a dance with death.