Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart

Some are born richWhile others poor

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

I still don't get golf.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.

I'm not a vampire but I feel like one