American Quotes

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.