I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.

The most beautiful thing that you can show people is how to reveal their own beauty to themselves.

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

A woman's endurance enabled your first breath.

An evergreen flower is never scared of the upcoming fall.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.