Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.

I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.

You can't ever get too much of Paris.

I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better.

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.

Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

Beauty always has something remote.

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.