Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

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.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.