Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.