This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

I have to return some videotapes

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

The artificial is always innocent.

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.