If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

Desire to give and not always receive.

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.

There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

Boys will be boys... They commit mistakes.

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.