We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I hope you can someday forgive me.''I forgive you now.

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.

Total contentment is only for cows.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.