usta be young usta be gifted - still black.

Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it.

Art is love made public.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.