I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary