Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.

I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

Theres so much to becoming a woman.

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.