Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.