I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

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.

You are not responsible for anybody elses life or happiness, don't ever feel guilty for being happy! ‪

The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.