“Steadman! Any guy that’s got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that’s a good dude. I want to talk to him.”

I don’t do politics. I just like to laugh.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I’ve been there twice.

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I’d really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone’s life?

I’m not slick. I’m not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

People don’t know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy’s economic and moral centres without having first to achieve ‘the destruction of the enemy’s main forces on the battlefield’. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means – hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on.

Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.

All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.