Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

There is no lateness in life.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

My inspiration is my hometown.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.