Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.