When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.