Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

A sunset will color your dreams.And a sunrise will color your smile.It's all God asks.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.