I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that ….

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair..

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair..

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….