I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her.... She was in over her head, and it seemed... so was he.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.