He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Original sin is a very commercial idea, ” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

I admire people who are creative.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.