Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.