And if you must cheat, then please cheat death. Because I couldn’t live a day without you.

Always remember rule #6... don't take yourself so damn seriously

Beauty is harsh.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

No one but a fool is always right.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

safety and love are both illusions!

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

I want to make a poem of my life.