Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.