Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother."What?""She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!""Take a picture for me, " Grandma said.

As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

You're only as good as your record collection.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.

I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.