I'm not the same person that I used to be.

Work hard and never make excuses.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I want to get rich and die old.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

I don't need to get my due; I get my money.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.