The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.