I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare.

My best friend ran away with my wife, and let me tell you, I miss him.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.