I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.