Long visits don't make for good friends.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

It was love. It was lust. It was just between us. The passion, the desire, the fire. The way we held on in so little time and his eyes when he saw me for the first time.

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

Positivity transforms us for the better.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.