The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

I'm just an everyday kind of hero. If the everyday kind saves babies from burning buildings and looks hotter than hell in bunker gear.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.