It would have been magical I was sure, if I hadn't caught my marshmallow on fire and dropped it on his shoe.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?