If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

I like marriage. The idea.

Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.

Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.