People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.