Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Love street! This is the right way.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.