Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

I am a strong woman, I can endure it all.

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.