There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Thought is free.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Sunlight is painting.