Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.