The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences