Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

This woman could make a saint sin.

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.