My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.