Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

The instant is not in time -- time is in the instant.

For as long I can remember I have wanted to die. So that started around age 6. I think. My earliest clear memories start at age 140.

As he floated more and more deeply toward sleep, the scent of her body and hair was redolent throught his senses, until he was dreaming of breathing her skin.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.