I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, "Isn't this great?" or "Can you believe?" And I would react, like, "No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment."

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.