I am the odd man out in the family.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

The northern soldiers are just men, ” Hal told the men in his command. “And women, ” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.

To think deeply of simple things.

Religion is using everything for God.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.