...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Love and ego can never exist together, just as the Sun and shadow cannot.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.