People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.

Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.

I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

When you come to New York you always get a buzz.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.