The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

I vote. People died for our right to vote and I can't let that go.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on, Just keep on pressin on. Sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.