But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

If you don’t hurt others it doesn’t mean you love them but it simply reveals that you are loving.

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.("Dial 'O' For Operator")

What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

If Trump's so-called sexual predator nature is something the media wants to not let go of, then the way to deal with it is not to bring up Bill Clinton.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.