Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a role that seemed perfect for him. I like the idea of him as one of the few moral centres of the Wire show.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.