If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

Hope sinks a world of imagination.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.