My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

Tai Odunsi

It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.

Francis Bacon, Essay 'Of Great P

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Ruth Benedict

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Terry Pratchett

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jon Kabat Zinn

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Orson Scott Card

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Walter Wager

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby