"A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life."

“It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.”

“To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.”

“Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.”

“Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.”

“Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.”

“Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.”

Source : "Storm Reading". Play by Neil Marcus, Rod Lathim, Roger Marcus and Access Theater, shown on television and performed at the Kennedy Center (1992); later quoted in Adam Benjamin "Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers" (p. 23), 2002.

“It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.”

“The poetic side of me is Scottish.”