Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.

I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.