With hope, a mind is always free.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.