The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

You know it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I'v…

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

A sheep in sheep's clothing.