"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere."

"I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other."

"A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was."

"Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?"