I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Thought is free.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

A person preaches well that lives well.