Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.