I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

I am a believer in change peu a' peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.