Sandra Bernhard

“I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.”

“When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?”

“Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.”

“Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.”

“When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.”

“Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.”

“Gayness is a non-issue.”

“I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.”

“I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.”

“I like the energy of live performance.”

“The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.”

“I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.”

“I don't believe in karma.”

“When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.”

“I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.”

“That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.”

“I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.”

“I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.”

“I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.”

“At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.”