I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.