You must have come from very far down, " Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.

I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fatherswe live

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

When you go up in the ranking, for sure you have more friends.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.