"I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things."

“It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?”

“You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...”

“NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.”

“I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.”

“I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can.”

Source : "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

“All beauty contains darkness.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”

“The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.”