Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

[Democrats] in their frustration at having lost, they've thrown away the camouflage now.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.