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!

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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

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!