To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don't win.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them