I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.