Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

This incompleteness is all we have.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.