Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

Humanity is the sin of God

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.