Language is wine upon the lips.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

It is not a band. It is an idea.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.