"Even the worst book can give us something to think about."

“You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.”

“People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.”

“If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night”

“Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.”

“Happiness is a moving target.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.193, Macmillan

“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”

“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.”

Source : "How a 3-D printed arm gave hope to boy maimed in bomb blast" by Mick Ebeling, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2014.

“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.”