Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

But the book! The siren song of the book!

action always prove, why words mean nothing

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.