One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.