You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

i’m going to love again so quietlyno one will know i’m home.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.