I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself, " Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

Trust in God, the dependence on supernatural powers!

Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.