Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.