Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction which seems much more severe.

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

All my album artwork is body painting.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.

You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

The way you store up treasure in Heaven is by investing in getting people there.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.