I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

Love is to be cherished because you're lucky to feel it even once in your life.

I always say this: If you a dude texts you after 2 a.m. and you reply, then you will never get called at 8 p.m. He won't take you serious.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord, --use it faithfully.

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.