To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

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.

I go wherever my fare is paid.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.