How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

Depression is anger turned inward.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

I changed the past by walking back into it.

I know you are, but you gotta push

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

Unless you learn how to love yourself first, you will not be able to truly love anyone else

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

I'm not really a homosexual. I just help them out when they're busy.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

Life is not easy for any for us.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.