The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Drugs are for idiots. I'm never going to be that person.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

No ideas but in things.