If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

The only way to spread peace is to have peace inside you Yogi vini

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.