Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.