Bike lane: the section of the road that accommodates wide loads and has speed bumps to protect drunk drivers.

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.

The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.

Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.

Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.

Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?

If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.

By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness to receive.

I loved you at your worst, and you were always at your worst. Nothing could stop me. Not even you.

Achieving your goals depends more on the way you manage to push through the bad days, than shine on the good ones.

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.

Do I read her books? Of course.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?