The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.