What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.