They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I do like the world quite a lot.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

Even if you are a loser today, it doesn’t mean that you cannot change yourself

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

Let deeds match words.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.