Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

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

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.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.