And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.