In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.