Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

A typical rapist is a recidivist.

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.