We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Positive thoughts emanate when we are in a sate of joy and negative thoughts come when we are in a state of sorrow.

Pain is like a healing emotional fever.

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

One hates an author that's all author.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Lost love is still love.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.