And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!