One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.

Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.

Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

I have to look to my wife.