It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.