Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.