Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

Being happy is not the only happiness.