It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn’t get it.
I am on the road all the time. Whether I’m in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can’t tell the difference, and that’s good. You don’t have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that.
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they’re taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it’s normal to kneel down to a naked man who’s nailed to a cross? It’s like a bad leather bar.
No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don’t do it in public.
And I seek people who break rules with happiness – and not bringing pain to themselves.
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.
I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.
I love to read about anger. A “feel bad” book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children.
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.
The further away I am from water, the less well I do!
Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? “Axis of Evil”? Come on. “A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain” is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.
There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.
Baltimore never changes much. People aren’t impressed by anything. It’s great; it’s not a trendy town.
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior – BEFORE the Reformation.
I’m an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s – I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don’t listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.
Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.