This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

Every shot should be a knockout shot.

I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.