Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.

Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.