You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?