But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.