Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You're going to have things to repent, boy, ' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

I think that as people and as humans, our social pattern is to always run away from problems... as humans in general.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.