Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.