Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.