Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop

What is essence of knowledge, if it does not change the way we act?

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.