| Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk |
| Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. |
| The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying' |
| Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. |
| The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. |
| No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. |
| Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception. |
| Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. |
| In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose. |
| The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. |
| I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. |
| Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. |
| How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. |
