And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him, but I'd probably move. But I'm not gonna call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.