I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.