Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.