No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.

A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

A bolt from the blue.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.