When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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.

It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number. NetworkEtiquette.net

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.