“He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.”

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

One finds great comfort in good dinners.

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.

There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

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.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s ok to be different.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that’s too bad.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

Don’t bother doing something unless you’re radically different from the competition.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.