It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

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.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

Noah, if we were to get married, you couldn't date anymore.

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.