At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

I am Sunai, ” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

The time to clean our city of any dirt begins with individual action for collective clean communities.

If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

My heart shattered. My world shattered

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.