When he touches me, the sky and the earth switch places.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

These people all woke up this morning and reminded themselves to be human beings. Not everyone knows how to do that. No vermin, my people. Real human beings.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.