In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

A drop in the bucket, a tear in the ocean, you’ve been treading cold water, memorizing the motion just to stay afloat.

And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.

It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.

You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster, and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.

You are only as deepas the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.

I’m a lot like you, and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say, and it’s sad to see.

It isn’t easy, ” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can dois say really easy things to each other.

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Something that simply mystifies me.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.