There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.