Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Be happy without picking flaws.

The prophet is the eye of the people.

You enlighten the light of love in my life.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.