Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle

All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just waiting for the end." - Edie

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.