Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.

AUNT SHADIE:I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.ROSE:I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.AUNT SHADIE:White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.

The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel