There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

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.

A wrong choice thwarts God’s original intention

Be at peace with yourself and with all humankind.

I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.

The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.