A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

I am just one human being.

The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

The Katrina matter was terrible.

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.