Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Heaven is inside us, ' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"Benedict

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day you change.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.