An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.