If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

You got to go there to know there.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.