We were thinkers not talkers.We were problems not solutions.We were heroes of the dark, villains with a spark.

Half awake and almost dead. But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...Waiting for a miracle to happen.

Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.

Begin to see the violence around you

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

Well take care of the counting.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.