I love my own kind—womankind.

My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.

The spirit awaken, the soul revive.

Where is miracle? None they can’t see.Where is hope? I only see light on the sea.

Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.