"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

What is life without laughter?

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.