I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Money should not dictate how I live my life..I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.

Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.

How wrong and petty any life is.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

I can't see myself not rappin' and not talking the bullshit I'm talking. I love that! I can't lie. Once I stop I'm just going to stop all the way.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.