I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream

Long only for what you have.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.