Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth