There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

...it is not enough to be freeof the whips, principalities and powers

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.