My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Friends are forever Boys are whatever.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.