If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

Remorse begets reform.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.