It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.

Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.