Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Quit analyzing me. My crazy needs no definition.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.