One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

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.

People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist.

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.