I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

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.

And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars.

Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.

White on rice. Green on grass. Sheets on a bed. Him on her.

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

People will always show their true selves in the end.

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.