God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.