"Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That'…"

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If y…"

"The two Indians crossed the plantation toward the slave quarters. ... "Man was not made to sweat." "That's so. See wh…"

"For the holy are susceptible too to evil, even as you and I, signori; they too are helpless before sin without God's …"

"How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home."

"My mother is a fish."

"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner i…"

"Sometimes I think it ain’t none of us pure crazy and ain’t none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him tha…"

"... when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be.—…"

"Mr. Khrushchev says that Communism, the police state, will bury the free ones. He is a smart gentleman, he knows that…"