I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.