Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister, ' he said.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'