at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

People can be miracles.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

Find first, seek later.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I make decisions quickly.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.