You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

We can make America what America must become.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.