White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.