I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

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.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.