Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Evil must always be fought.

I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

People don't want other people to be people.

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

The soul circumscribes all things.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!