I just want to do something challenging.

Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

Good shoes take you to good places