I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.

Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.

All things seem possible in May.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.