That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

I have daughters and I have sons.When one of them lays a handOn my shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly in the deep sea.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.