I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.