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

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.

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?

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?