We are each other's magnitude and bond.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

First fight. Then fiddle.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Poetry is life distilled.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

We are each others harvest we are each others business we are each others magnitude and bond.

Each body has its art...

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse I believe before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary at the end of a pregnancy to have for your pains a decent baby.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

I am one of the haunted.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

He already ruined your mascara dont let him ruin your life.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre Columbian archeology not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

We care about margins.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

We have been very blessed for many, many years to have the energy industry here in Wyoming.

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each others hands and how thick their sanitation gloves are.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

I don't know about young Thor and King Thor getting their own series someday, although it would be nice if I could write three Thor series at the same time.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.

Possession is nine points of the law

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.