David Dunham

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Nothing endures but change.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.