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.

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

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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.

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.