The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences