David Alan Royster

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

It’s amazing what passes for love these days – crows parading as blue jays.

I was a poem, she was a melody, songs emerged between us.

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private– though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

I don’t think members of the royal family sign prenuptial agreements

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

I love my husband, but my girlfriends are my sanity.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.