Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.

We are each, then, a sentence within the boundless book of humanity. The question is… What will our sentence read, how eloquently will it read, and who will read it?

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

If only faces could talk.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.