You are your artYour are your songYou are your craft.You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

I begin by considering an effect.

As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.