I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.