My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of business reasons.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Woo the muse of the odd.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!