The police are very mean people sometimes.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Make a life while making a living.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.