If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

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.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven!

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

They never taste who always drink.

I want to buy Yoogeun a fire extinguisher.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.