Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.