I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

What does this program/team need this week?

Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

I am a capable person, and I can handle anything that comes my way

If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.