The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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?

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.