I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that, " my father said. "He was beautiful.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

It pays to be content with your lot.

Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.