If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.