'My words are nearly always an offense. I don't know how to speak of anything So as to please you. But I might be taught, I should suppose. I can't say I see how.

He said twice over before he knew himself: 'Can't a man speak of his own child he's lost?' 'Not you!'-'Oh, where's my hat? Oh, I don't need it! I must get out …

A man must partly give up being a man With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off Anything special you're a-mind …

The little graveyard where my people are! So small the window frames the whole of it.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

(In regard to Howard Stern) 'He says terrible things on the airwaves'

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.