I write out of defiance.

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.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

I've learned to never underestimate the impossible.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.