Agony without genius was gaucherie.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.