I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

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.

May our twilights mix togetherlike breath and breathlessness.

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.