Sweetest li'l feller everybody knows Dunno what to call him but he's mighty lak' a rose Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.

A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!

All of her mannerisms, even her way of sitting, are of a perfect femininity. Or: how to occupy the least possible amount of space in the world.

In the hope that people can change.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.