Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

Power's twin is responsibility.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand

Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

I never was a very good singer.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.