To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
Music falls on the silence like a sense A passion that we feel, not understand.
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.