Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

Breathing is underrated.

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.