Since the teachers weren't picking, I ended up with a boy with bad body odour. 'You should wear deodorant, ' I said to him. 'And you should shut your trap, ' he replied.

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.