Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.