I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.