You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.