One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

The older I get, the faster I was.

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

Oh, I am a prompt person!

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

The common denominator is a love of music.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.