I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.

Be Visionary ...

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Terrorism is not new to black people.