Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

Your comfort zone is your danger zone

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.