Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

I guess love laughs at history a little.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

I should still be in jail.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.