Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.