Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.