The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

Greatness only comes in two flavors

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.