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“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”
Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”
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“Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.”
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“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”
Source : Ilka Chase (1969). “The varied airs of spring”, W.H. Allen
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“I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.”
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“I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.”
Source : "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010. 
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“I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.”
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“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
