I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.