And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.