“America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.”

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man, and i believe in a promised land.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Ocean separates lands, not souls.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.