I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬

I trust the man, much less the men, not at all the crowd.

My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own.

We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy, but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us.

Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.

Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.

How will I ever learn to forget what I can no longer delete?

Living one floor below Paradise.

Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.

I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better.

There is love in every heart.

You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.