Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.