You got to face your evil, Hoodoo, " Zeke said. "If people don't face the danger that's seeking them, evil will find them first.

Greedy people are poor in the mind.

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.