We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

Naama Yehuda ‏@NaamaYehuda · 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead.

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.