Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.