Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

I'm not ready to be a woman yet. I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.