Impose yourself on the world, don’t let the world impose itself on you.

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

There's a fire starting in my heart

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Mercy trumps justice.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.