All humor is rooted in pain.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Nobody is going to hand you success. You have to hand yourself to success.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

Whatever I do, I should do it perfectly and correctly

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.