I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.