A tourist is an ugly human being.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.

Whatever anyone does, / anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments, I have people that work for me from China.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.