Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

For the space of many, many years, you were enough for me. You were my bliss, and my hallelujah.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.