I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

My one and only goal is to unite the world.

You're playing with fire, " she warned him."That's how I know I'm alive.

I take sounds and change them into words.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.

A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.