I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two all-important laws on earth:1. Don’t murder people.2. Never swear in front of Lilly.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

The mind approves and the body consents.