Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather, bright and sunny forever.

If she actually had friends, maybe she wouldn't have turned out so nasty and evil.

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.