Tuesday quotables...

"Get out of my ****ing way. Don't you know who I am? I've been working all ****ing day and I need to get to my ****ing dressing room."
- Elton John to a policeman as he was trying to get past security after performing at the Concert for Diana

"I devour books and I noticed that the gay fiction I read never included a main Hispanic character. I kept seeing smaller supporting roles, stereotypes we've all read countless times before: the gangbangers, the super built old-school macho guys; the sexy hot Latino gardeners and the over-the-top drag queens. I wanted to write something that spoke of our strong friendships, our family loyalty and our struggles with being accepted as gay in the Hispanic community. I wanted to capture how Latinos thrive and survive in a daily bicultural bubble and how we sway back and forth in this dual reality. I haven't seen many contemporary novels by a gay Latino writer that speak to all this, especially from an American and Hispanic point of view, with a Boston and Miami as backdrops."
- Johnny Diaz, author of the new novel, "Boston Boys Club"

"The dubious honor that I hold is not that I lack of awareness of the power of the word but I made a huge error in judgment in using the word at a time when all my friends, my companions who happen to be gay -- they're just sick and tired of hearing the word. And I did it before the world... in terms of what I was feeling on that day, I would rather wish I would say 'I wish would wouldn't treat me like an N-word'"
- Isaiah Washington to Larry King

"There's many reasons. In order to talk about something like that you have to deconstruct it. There's the celebrity aspect and in the world of reality television we have this notion that if you are someone who is put in the spotlight irrelevant of what you do for a living you're immediately deemed a public property. And because of that you're supposed to offer up your entire life on the plate and let people devour you like some cheap all-you-can-eat buffet. I'm not a salad bar! I choose to keep many things, not just my private life or personal life, to myself."
- singer Mika on the fascination with his sexuality, which he has never revealed.