[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

A man's kiss is his signature.

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.