“Some historian should really look at all of the proposals that have been put forth throughout the history of our country for possible constitutional amendments. Maybe at some point in time there was one that was sillier than this one [banning same-sex marriage], but I don’t know of one. … It is said that this is necessary to protect marriage. Whose marriage is this going to protect? How conceivably could it protect any marriage in the United States?”

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“She’d done a thing on television called ‘J.T.’ … I saw it and it was wonderful. It was poetic and sensitive and satiric and tender and funny and so many things compressed into this one hour. And I thought, ‘Oh, God, this is exactly what I want in a monologue.’ So I wrote Jane and asked her to help me do the Edith Ann album. I didn’t hear from her for awhile. Then, suddenly, about a week before I was supposed to go in and record, she sent me a lot of material. I persuaded her to come to California and help me produce it. Frankly, I was pretty taken with her as soon as I saw her. We just sort of clicked. We became a couple right away.”