And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Only gravity can hold me down

How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.