Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.