Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Spontaneity is the province of youth

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

For me 'You & I Forever' is celebrating the person you love being by your side. This is what it means to others

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.