I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.

You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.

Just two people in love.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

No paradox, no progress.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.