I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It….

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most di….

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever d….

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped pu….

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life..

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you….

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of..

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet..

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line..

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work..

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it..

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer..

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's v….

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran..

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside..

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it..

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to hav….

A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might wa….

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock ….

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an….