Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.