The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Ross [Mathews] was my favorite for years so I am glad he is part of the family. I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way.

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.