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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.

My principle of success is SSET. That is, S - Select, S - See, E - Expect, T - Take. Select what you want in your mind. See what you want in your mind. Expect to get anything you want in your mind, as much as you'd like to get something you purchased online. Take it because it's for you.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time before slipping into the pit – be warmed by the light of the sun.

Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.

The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.