I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

But did thee feel the earth move?

There are two types of relationships: nourishing and toxic. Do not keep the toxic. What interaction does light have with darkness? None!

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.