The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.