If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.