Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

When in doubt, choose to live.

The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent, " said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Laughter is a tangible evidence of hope.

Until I die I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.