You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

Donald Trump is the most media savvy guy ever to sit down in the Oval Office.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.