"The sublime is contained in a grain of dust."

“In the end, everything is simple.”

“Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.”

“I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.”

“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”

“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

Source : Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.

“...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.”

“Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.”

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

“Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.