If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.