Bruce Eric Kaplan

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.