All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

That's the point of words. They get around.

I love the stars they always find a way to pull me away.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

We can't fire our way to Finland.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.