If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.