I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

I know you are, but what am I?

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don't have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

The person who knows his calling will not be embarrassed in front of great and famous people because he knows who he is, and he knows the purpose of his life

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Over time you realize that some people just aren't worth it anymore.

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

To each our own Hamlet.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.