Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

I want to work with Justin Timberlake.

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Tell me something, Adron. Sometime you’ve never shared with anyone else. Not even Thia. (Livia) I’m the one who glued Zarina to the toilet seat when she was seven. (Adron)