It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Love is not something you plan, it just happens.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?