The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

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.

In order for us to learn to love, first ourselves and the others, we must accept Jesus’ love for us in the deepest parts of our hearts.

Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.