You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a sleep that you can't even wake up from, because you might remember what you did when you were there. There's no place for them - there should be a rehabilitation center on every corner, along with McDonald's and the banks. This is serious business. The waiting lists are incredible. I mean, it's terrible. It's really terrible.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.