Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

There is no marriage without engagement

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton.” Nick didn’t blink. “Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.