A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

I know Matt is your friend, but I think he’s a douche bag.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye

I did Google myself recentle - without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

I don't care what you think of social media, and I don't care what you think of the people that comment .

Hold cash when opportunities are not presenting themselves.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.