Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

We are only failures in life when give up and stop trying.If you fail, get up and try again.

The self is a self-made Procrustean bedof little comfort

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.