Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.