I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

In eternityWe live. Come from. Life is one Series of footprints.

Most people desire comfort and pleasure.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.

If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.