Bruce Eric Kaplan

I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

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.

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.

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