“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of a...” — Joyce Carol Oates Quote

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

I stand for what's right. That's the bottom line. I call it like I see it.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.