We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from ….
Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated..
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; ….
There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..
I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and Londo….
I've always dressed like a dude..
I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..
I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!.
What belongs to someone, belongs to someone..
I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny..
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was..
'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again..
As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so….
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It ju….
They are the we of me..
The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen y….
I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it..
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs..
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation..
I prefer nothing, unless it is true..