Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.