Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

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.

A Christian might be tired of the Christianity, but certainly he is scared of the Islam.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.