What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Europeans are quarrelsome.