Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'