Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.