There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin

All experience is subjective.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.