How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

I've always had an air of mystery.

When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.