So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages go wrong. That’s how we learn the truth about ourselves.

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

I can have an androgynous quality.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ?