Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.