As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Love is blazing fire.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.