Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

Why is everybody afraid of love?

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.

Planning anything is hopeless.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.