Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Bad gains are true losses.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.