I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

I thought of Marius. Wild, wonderful, Byronic-fantasy Marius, who had somehow found something he wanted in the everyday quietness of me. Until he hadn't.

When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

When you're through learning, you're through.