She's a warm fart at Christmas.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.

It's hard not to be a winner when you are constantly pushing yourself to see how far you can go.

Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.