The mosquitos are so big they eat you alive wear your shoes.

The door of true knowledge will opento the light

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.