I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Punctuation, is? fun!

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Show me the contract.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that's a fake school.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.