The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

I hasten to sleep so that I might dreamand colour my mind with a myriad of things.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chainsinert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might, and get off at different times.Still, memory lingers.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

Art helped give me confidence.

I think that's something that Oprah [Winfrey] and Ava [ DuVernay] do seamlessly. They know how to connect to people and they know how to share our stories. To be a part of that is a blessing.

Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.