She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

White Americans have a short memory.