People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.