Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.

"Centurion" is probably one of my favorites [of RZA Day ].

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

Maybe all crows were just creepy.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.