Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
We are not here for any positions but for a responsiblity.
In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.