I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

A flower is beautiful not because she knows what the new fashion is, but because she knows the desires of your heart.

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

Love is an unconditional gift, and not a bargain.

If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.