My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city.

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

To be happy, make others happy.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.