I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.