I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.