"I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring."

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

“You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.”

“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.”

“The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.”

Source : William Arnot (1978). “Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth”, p.313, Kregel Publications

“Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.”

“Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!”

“People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.”

“Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.