-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

My favorite color is you.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.