“So for now I'd like gays to just be part of conservatism, just like women are, just like blacks are, without a special designation.”

Simon and Clary, pg. 36
Variant: What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 5: Harry

Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 285
Context: You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004)

"Lazarus"
Song lyrics, Blackstar (2016)

President Barack Obama on Twitter at June 26, 2015 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/614435467120001024 <br class="br">2015

Last Laugh ‘05 (2005)

Tattoo

As quoted in The Guts of a New Machine (30 November 2003) https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/the-guts-of-a-new-machine.html <br class="br">2000s