I hate optimism out of insensitivity.

My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.

Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

It's hard to keep the energy and the emotion of the scene when they're installing a massive green screen behind you.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school. "Lots," he said. -Rose (Roza) to Dimitri