"Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas."

“Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.”

“Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”

Source : "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

“It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.”

“When making your ass, always draw the shape of Africa, or as Latrice would say, the homeland.”

Source : "RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The Queens Take The Wrestling Ring" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

“You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.”

“Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.”

“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.”

“I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.”