JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]

The breeze is cold and refreshing, I draw the night into my lungs and try to calm myself down.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

Nothing wrong with pop.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.