When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

A good liar must have a good memory.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

I am not now That which I have been.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.