"It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment."

“Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on”

Source : Camryn Manheim (1999). “Wake Up, I'm Fat!”, Broadway

“I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.”

Source : "Testing negative" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.

“Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.”

“I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.”

“I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2005). “White Rat: Short Stories”, Harlem Moon

“No, the United States does not target civilians.”

“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.”

“I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.”