For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

Words are loneliness.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

The word in your mouth is anarchy.

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

I always find intelligent people in the comments.

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the title of being excellent. From working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its badge of honor.

Hope believes there are greater forces against you but that there’s a chance you might win out. Hope is wishing. Faith is knowing. The universe is listening.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.