I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.