The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

You have to live to really know things, my love

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

The words on my heart are love, faith and hope.

Whenever I am going through good phase, i don't give a damn about what my horoscope says.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

I used to be a conservative.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.