Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Own your truths—all of them. Be honest. Be genuine. Be straightforward. Be refreshing!

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.