I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

It is winter--the best time to dream of spring.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.