Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

All of material and All of any services can be purchased, with the exception of, Love, Peace and Joy, they are not for sale at any price

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.