So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

I don't believe in faeries!

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.