I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.
That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us. . . Nothing just stops and stays. . . But it flows on. . . Like a river.
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.
I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.
Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creativeintuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.