I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies

Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?

We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.