There's no justice in this world.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

When you decide to be something, you can be it.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.