A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

I want to focus on my salad.

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.