"You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me."

“Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.”

“[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)”

“With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.”

Source : "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

“Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.”

“If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.”

“My friends, there are no friends.”

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”

“I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.”