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My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

He held up the AK-47, the muscles in his arm bunching against the weight. “This is an assault rifle.” Then held up the handgun. “This is a semi-automatic pistol.” Then he gave a little thrust of his hips and looked down at his penis. “That is my gun. As you’ve discovered, it’s pumpaction like a shotgun , but it doesn’t fire bullets.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

the good news is we usually make all our mistakes when we're young, the bad news is that they bury us when we're old

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

There's a reason that male golfers don't compete against female golfers. They're in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It's time to apply this logic to the online world.

I'd say I get heckled quite a lot because I look quite like an easy target. If you're an alpha-male and you think you've got something to prove to your girlfriend, I think I'm the perfect person to prove your worth.