You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

No one individual can tell the truth.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

You can't. You just have to.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.