The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

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.

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.

I've always lived in the same way.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face