People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn’t think you have a brain in your head.

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.