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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
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When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
