For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
