Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!