"The one thing that makes it possible to get through life is to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're dead."

"I am a man. Now you may think I’ve made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I’m trying to fool you, because my first name ends in 'a,' and I own three bras and a pair of high-heeled…"

"We can't just be consumers, we have to be citizens."

"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

"I don't believe in magic. I believe in reality."