The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Every creation comes from the Creator.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.