I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.