When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

An orphans curse would drag to hellA spirit from on high

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.

Personally I don't understand why the metal press even bother, but I guess it is good they do.