You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

It’s on the path of simplicity that love prefers to walk.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.