I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count

Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him