Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it.

The best part of being unique is not having to be perfect.

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.