I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

I'm the mom and the other members are my children

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.