The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.

i am not perfection i am learning per fractions of moments as they come

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.