What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Her loving hands, soft lips, and perfumed scents were an addiction for which he had no cure.

Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.