I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

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.

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Without the author there is nothing.

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

I think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.