To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.

How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal

Heaven doesn’t make this life less important

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.