Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

When you're young, you say what you feel.When you're adult, you speak what you think.When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

From a single crime know the nation.