The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
One and god make a majority.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
The best way out is through.