Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It takes a long time to become young.