What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Time just gets away from us.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.