A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

All humor is rooted in pain.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for cent

I say that good painters imitated nature

Love is whole. Love cannot be divided from itself. Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.