Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.