In Indian Country, ” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

Centuries had passed since the dawn of science, yet men offer riches in the name of God.

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.