I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Attitude determines how the “inner battle” is won.

...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

One cannot apologize for one's nature.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.