Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.