The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

You have seen so much purposeless suffering that at least being killed for a reason can be borne?

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

The second step that comes right after taking responsibility for everything that occurs in your life is to let go of all that you do not feel good about.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail. In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell. My eyes see the glory, and well, The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.