Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Who will read these poems when the people are gone?

Need I say more?''No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them Why can't he recall with equal skill All the times he told them!

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

Leadership is like parenting.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.