Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other st…

- Harvey Fierstein

Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a pris…

- Harvey Fierstein

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

- Harvey Fierstein

There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.

- Harvey Fierstein

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

- Harvey Fierstein

How time flies when you're doin all the talking.

- Harvey Fierstein

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

- Harvey Fierstein