From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!

I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)