I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Life experience is priceless.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

People are made up of flaws.

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.